Exude integrity, patriotism, self-belief – Chief Justice tells youth
"Those are the values that will differentiate you from others and set you and our nation on the path to greatness,”
The Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin Yeboah has charged the country’s youth to exhibit integrity, patriotism and a sense of belief in themselves and the nation.
According to him, these are the values that will set them apart from others thus putting our nation on the path of greatness.
“It took the efforts of people like you, some only a few years older than some of you here today, to produce those inventions, those ideas and those projects that have made some countries answer to the description of ‘developed’. The task I set for you is to also see yourself as capable of doing the same for Ghana.
To do this will require not only competence at your tasks but integrity, patriotism and belief in yourselves and your nation. Those are the values that will differentiate you from others and set you and our nation on the path to greatness,” he noted.
Addressing students at the annual Chief Justice Mentoring Programme, His Lordship indicated that some nations are classified as developed not because of themselves but the contributions of their citizens( youth and adults alike).
The annual Chief Justice Mentorship programme is designed to inspire young people especially to take up service to the nation in whatever capacity they may find themselves to build Ghana to the level it desires.
Furthermore, per his speech on the theme; "I Pledge Myself to the Service of Ghana,” the Chief Justice dispelled the notion that service to the nation can only be delivered from certain positions and described the same as far from the truth.
He thus noted that a nation can only be great when all of its citizens are bound by a sense of duty to the collective good.
“A nation cannot be great if only its public servants are great. A nation is not truly great until all of its citizens are bound by a sense of duty to the collective good. So, what I want to say to you young people here, and the millions out there who cannot be here today, is that your efforts are what will make this country, like those ones beyond the seas that I am sure you admire.”
This year’s mentorship programme students from ten schools consisting of five Junior High and five Senior High Schools.
The Senior High Category consisted of students from Kwabenya SHS, Adjen Kotoku, Frafraha Community SHS, Amasaman SHS and Al-Basar SHS while the JHS category had pupils from Morning Star Int. School, EP Church JHS, Achimota JHS, Martyrs of Uganda and the School for the Blind.
